Friday, August 22, 2014

Cojuangco Backs Macanlalay as Vice Guv

For M&M vs. E&E 2016 Capitol Race?

By
Mortz C. Ortigoza

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Former
Pangasinan Congressman Mark Cojuangco declared his all out support to the mayor
here whom he formally picked last August 21 as his candidate for the vice
governorship of the gargantuan province.

M&M for 2016: The 29 year-old two-term Calasiao Mayor Mark Roy Macanla-lay (4th from right) acknowledges the reiteration of support from former Congressman Mark Cojuangco (3rd from left) who was exhilarated that theyoung hizzoner finally accepted his offer to be his vice governor tandem in the 2016 gubernatorial race where he will be throwing his hat. The duo's pressconference was held at the commercial building of the Macanlalays in Brgy.

Bued, Calasiao last August 21. MORTZ. ORTIGOZA

Cojuangco, Pangasinan
chairman of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, said his tandem with Mayor Mark
Roy Macanlalay has been 100% final.

Macanlalay formally
declared his bid during his 29th birthday celebration last Wednesday held at
the residence of his father Vice Mayor Roy Macanlalay. The following day he and
Cojuangco called a press conference, held at the commercial edifice of the
Macanlalays here, attended by this town’s vice mayor and almost all of its village
chiefs.

Cojuangco said he prefers
Macanlalay than Vice Governor Ferdinand Calimlim who remains with the NPC after
Governor Amado T. Espino resigned lately from the party.

The name of Calimlim
cropped out as a timber of the NPC for the vice gubernatorial race after
political experts said he (Calimlim) could not be a vice governor for Board
Member Amado T. Espino III bid for the governorship as the exiting Governor Espino
would be his tandem for the number two post in the almost two million vote rich
province comes the 2016 polls.

“It would be M & M
versus E & E,“one of the scribes
quipped here referring to Mark Cojuangco, a scion of business tycoon Eduardo
“Danding” Cojuangco, and Mark Macanlalay and the young Espino and his silent
but politically astute father for the biggest and most expensive provincial
derby Pangasinenses would have ever witnessed in their lifetime.

Calimlim has been a two
terms vice governor of Espino. He is rumored too to run as nominee in the
province based party-list group.

Last July 31, Espino,
his brother Bautista Mayor Amadeo T. Espino, and son Bugallon Mayor Jumel Espino submitted their resignation to NPC President Georgidi B. Aggabao who
acknowledged receipt of the letter in August 4.

While son and namesake,
Provincial Federation of Liga ng mga Barangay President, Ex-Oficio member of
the Provincial Board Amado III sent his resignation last August 5 through
electronic mail at the NPC’s headquarter in Metro Manila.

Last July 29, Espino, a
last term governor, has finally came out from months long of deafening silence
by declaring to media men that he endorsed Amado III, as a gubernatorial bet.